Van der Poel set to join Pidcock at Nové Město

It has been announced that Mathieu van der Poel will return to XC World Cup racing at the next round of the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Nové Město this coming weekend. The race will mark van der Poel’s first XC World Cup appearance since Les Gets in August last year, where he finished sixth. Remarkably, his last XCO World Cup victory came back in 2019 at Lenzerheide in Switzerland. He will not be the only multi-discipline star on the startline either, with Tom Pidcock also set to race in the Czech Republic. Pidcock returns to Nové Město looking to extend his unbeaten record at the venue after missing last year’s round. Following the opening round in South Korea, Nové Město marks the series’ return to Europe, where the World Cup will remain for the next five rounds before heading to the USA for the final two events of the season.